Reading
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Five Essential Elements of Reading (Click on an element to find related resources.)
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Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the discrete sounds in spoken words. Phonemic awareness training involves helping children recognize, isolate, and manipulate phonemes, sometimes in connection with letters.
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Starfall - Make a Word - Long U Clifford the Big Red Dog: Concentration Activity Literature for Literacy Home Page Phonological Awareness: The Sound of ''m'' |
Clifford the Big Red Dog: Sound Match Activity
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Phonics instruction involves teaching children the relationships between letters and individual sounds (phonemes), and teaching them that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words.
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ABC Activities
Phonics and Reading Comprehensions
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Initial/Final
Consonant Sounds
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Consonant Blends and Digraphs
See 'N Spell at PrimaryGames.com
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Long
Vowels |
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Short
Vowels See 'N Spell at PrimaryGames.com
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Vowel
Digraphs/Irregular Vowels See 'N Spell at PrimaryGames.com BBC - Words and Pictures - Phonics Year 2
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Blending
and Segmenting
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Word
Families |
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Rhyming
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Phonics
Review
BBC - KS1 Bitesize Games - Literacy - Phonics Between the Lions - Lots of Video Choices |
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Fluency is the ability to read a text quickly and accurately. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and group words as they read. Fluent oral reading sounds effortless and expressive.
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Lesson Plans
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Online Read-alouds
Interactive Story Books online
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Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively, and applies to speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
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Contractions
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Prefixes/Suffixes/Root
Words
Suffixes - less, ness, ly, ful Prefixes, Suffixes and Root Words |
Antonyms and
Synonyms
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Compound Words
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Homonyms
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Multiple
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High Frequency
Words
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Learning Words Learning Chocolate |
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Comprehension refers to the ability to understand what one is reading—to relate a text to what one already knows while also constructing new knowledge and understanding.
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Sequence
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Fact and
Opinion
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Figurative Language
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Comprehension Strategies
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Online Stories
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Main Idea
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Drawing Conclusions
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Cause and Effect
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Reference
Skills
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Author's Purpose
FCAT Reading Grade 4 Author's Purpose |
Predicting
Outcomes
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Inferences
Inferences about Character Traits
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Compare
and Contrast
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Genre
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Story
Elements |
| Assessment | Dibels Intervention Electrified |